Posse Unit Threaten To Remove Their Music From Spotify In Royalties Protest

 

UK-based band Posse Unit are threatening to take down all of their music from the major streaming service Spotify this week in a new protest against the streaming giant. However, unlike Neil Young, who is protesting about Covid vaccine misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Posse Unit are protesting against Spotify’s royalty payouts.

‘It’s a joke’ says Posse Unit member Ben Hill. ‘And not even a funny one. Posse Unit have well over 110k streams of our tune ‘Everybody Party’ and so far we have made around $6 from Spotify. That’s like a beer & a packet of nuts. It’s a kick in the nuts’.

‘I get where Neil Young & Joni Mitchell are coming from 100%. I’m fully vaccinated. I think everyone should get vaccinated, but for me, if some of the other big players like Taylor Swift or The Weekend, or Coldplay or U2 took their music down from Spotify in protest about the peanuts smaller artists are getting paid from having their music streamed, it would make them and Apple, etc sit up and take notice. Sometimes when you are at the top of the tree, you need to look down at the ground. They were all artists starting out at some point’.

All of this comes hot off the heels of Posse Unit’s new single ‘Move It Up & Shake It Down’ (produced by Todd Kreunzburg) which for now, is available on all major streaming platforms.